{"id":264,"date":"2016-12-08T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=264"},"modified":"2017-09-08T03:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T11:10:59","slug":"tree-topper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Tree Topper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20161208_173031-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-265\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20161208_173031-1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20161208_173031-1-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20161208_173031-1.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a bunch of small wooden badge ornaments for my co-workers, but then I had an idea for a tree-topper in the same style. \u00a0Stopped off at Ride-Aid and picked up a tree topper and threw out everything except for the lights. \u00a0Lased out mirrored acrylic for the front, some plain plastic for the back, and foam-core for the standoffs in between.<\/p>\n<p>Came out pretty well, and got a lot of compliments. \u00a0Before I make any more, I need to figure out a way to illuminate it better, because buying tree-toppers just for the lights isn&#8217;t terribly cost effective. \u00a0I also need to make sure to use LED only, as incandescent bulbs might get too hot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a bunch of small wooden badge ornaments for my co-workers, but then I had an idea for a tree-topper in the same style. \u00a0Stopped off at Ride-Aid and picked up a tree topper and threw out everything except for the lights. \u00a0Lased out mirrored acrylic for the front, some plain plastic for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/?p=264\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tree Topper<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/projects.swissninja.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}